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Sticking with an aviation theme; the view above is of a light aircraft coming in to land (and in perspective, looking dangerously low) at Bournemouth airport – as seen from the vantage point below whilst out on a walk today

Having been mildly bitten by the astronomy bug over the last two days, I was up early again this morning to see a close alignment of the planets Venus and Jupiter. I have to say I was quite surprised at how easily they were to identify and just how bright they were. Through binoculars I could even tell that there was an eclipse happening on Venus (the higher and brighter dot in the photographs)

With my fast road bike still out of action for a while, it was out with the heavy tourer for a cycle again today. One benefit of riding this bike is that I can load up whatever stuff I like to take with me in the panniers. Today it was the drone that went in the panniers and I managed to get a few nice shots;

In need of some exercise and with my road race bike out of action, the touring bike got an outing today. My route took me out by the coast and home through the forest; providing me with a few opportunities to take some snaps.

This is at the entrance to Christchurch harbour;

Where cormorants were fishing and seagulls fighting;

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Further along the coast I got a view of Hurst Castle, guarding the entrance to The Solent;

And finally, in the forest, just this one bird stayed still enough and for long enough for me to dismount, extract my camera and capture this shot before it flew off;